Arc de Triumphe
After spending most of the day doing homework and lunch at the mall near La Defenseé we went to Charles de Gaulle – Etoile for dinner. That’s where I had more escargot and duck in a slightly was slightly sweet sauce but not overpoweringly sweet. it had very a good flavor. I gave each of the boysa taste of escargot. Michael said, “not bad” while is Michael speak for “its not gross or disgusting but I don’t want it again” while I wish Steve had got a picture of Ryan’s face. He obviously did not like the taste at all put I suspect it was because he figured out what it was. Ryan also tried a bit of my L’eau de Vie. He said “it tastes like hand sanatizer”. I don’t think that kid will take to alcohol anytime soon. 
After dinner we strolled over to the Are de Tromphe and looked of all the campaigns of Napoleon and the memorials added in bronze plaques for later wars. I ended up translating some of the plaques and engravings, not only for my guys but for another American there with family from a town named in the Army of the East. There was one too worn to be able to read well enough for me to translate but the ones for WW I and WW I I were very touching.
Wednesday Night – Sept 14th
This was our last night in Paris. We went back to Notre Dame and ate again in the Latin Quarter. This time Steve was with us. After dinner we strolled quite a ways down along the Seine. We started on the left bank but crossed on a pedestrian bridge full of students in groups talking, singing and playing music. I don’t remember seeing anything quite like it 20 years ago. We did the same sort of thing they were doing just not on the pedestrian bridges. At Cleopatra’s Needle we picked-up the metro back to the apartment.